Bela Fleck is a [hard to categorize...let's say] jazz banjo player who's been recording albums since the 80's. My most focused Bela Fleck period was in the very early 90's. This week I decided to complete my
Flight of the Cosmic Hippo CD (1991) with two other CD's from that period (that I'm
sure I owned at one point but somehow misplaced):
Bela Fleck & and the Flecktones (1990) and
UFO Tofu (1992.)
Other than Bela Fleck being a phenomenal artist and his music wonderful to write code by, something that strikes me as interesting (maybe even enough to justify this post!) is the branding uniformity of the covers of Bela Fleck for that brief musical period and how they contrast with
most album covers after that period. Those albums were very similar and their covers reflected it.
Branding Bela Fleck... When I see those covers of the early 90's Bela Fleck recordings it means something distinctive to me and reflects some unidentifiable, unquantifiable relationship I hold with early 1990's Bela Fleck banjo music. Those covers brand that relationship for me and stamp the experience with a big cosmic hippo. Now if I can transfer that branding to the apps I write.
Postscript: I caught Bela Fleck
with Stanley Clarke and Jean-Luc Ponty in Burlington not long ago. Wow!
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